Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Secondly , whenever I go into the window mode , the system freezes and even Ctrl=Break wo n't work , although I have did set BREAK=ON before running the software .
2 I 'll be all sweet penitence and grief that I 've dared set my will against his .
3 I hardly had anything in the cupboard so I had to make do
4 Alexandra bought a book on cheese-making and ignored Dora 's protests that she had helped make cheese at her mother 's knee and knew all there was to know about the matter already .
5 One friend who was told of the contents of the letter reveals : ‘ He told her in no uncertain terms that she had to help maintain the dignity of the Crown and consider the repercussions of her actions to the Queen .
6 The literal world which she inhabited was so plainly hostile that she seized with ardour upon any references to any other mode of being ; she came across few direct ones , in that suburban and industrial spot , so she had to make do with the oblique .
7 exactly , yeah and we can do that with everything , we can do that with everything , this is my perception and that 's your perception of this thing that I 'm holding in my hand , everything that we 've seen have that ability you know , we 've got the ability to do that with everything , what we need to do sometimes is walk around the issue if you like and look at it from another perspective and , and this is what we 're doing with Ethiopia , now , erm , the good section again was looking at images and particularly the fact that a lot of images are very negative and throwing an alternative view , the second section we 're looking at news coverage which is very sketchy , erm , it does n't provide a complete picture at all , and this third section well you saw what that 's about there
8 Yeah , because the ones that we 've did cost like I think it was
9 You know i i feeds into that idea I think that the the you know , people in Africa are impotent and that we have to put put into our pockets to help them when we 're destroying massive amounts of grain .
10 But a primary condition is that we have to let go of those aspects of our past that are no longer helpful or relevant .
11 Yes , so they had did have a variety of different things you you could er be
12 I got out , feeling alone and rootless now that he had let go of my hand .
13 He turned towards the stove so that she should n't see the flush of shame and dismay that he had let slip Berowne 's name .
14 I was reluctant to leave , being in the midst of fabricating a sensational case in which a Soviet spy ring had been discovered in Israel and an old ex-Nazi had admitted that he had helped liaise in secret South African military strikes against the colony on Mars .
15 Unfortunately the commercials company had omitted to provide a Director 's Chair , so he had to make do with a low wall .
16 He got the porter to buy him aftershave , but they did n't sell his musky expensive brand in Perth so he had to make do with a cheaper one from the tourist shop .
17 Joseph Fernandez , the local CIA man , tried not to have too much to do with the local airstrip/farm , once he had helped start it ; but the cover was sometimes blown in definitive fashion .
18 His expression lightening a little once he had let go of her , he pulled a penny from his pocket , and said cheerfully , ‘ We 'll toss for white .
19 Unfortunately , they were behind schedule and I had to make do with a curry-house scene .
20 But I had not voluntarily given up my ‘ lecturing ’ ; my institute had closed on account of the Cyprus situation , and I had to make do with inadequate ‘ private means ’ , even ‘ touching capital ’ , which would have deeply shocked Ivy .
21 But so far as I know they have never been reprinted , and I have let slip from my memory now the name of the author ( a salutary warning against undue pride for those of us writing today ) .
22 And you have to flash flash flash flash flash before you know oh , oh , ooh !
23 Unfortunately , that was finished now and she had to make do with what was to hand , ‘ Johnnie Walker ’ , which was very nice indeed thank you .
24 It was as if she had let go of a great burden .
25 In 1981 , when I left , there was no surgical alcohol available and we had to make do with boiled water .
26 Once a week bath night , now we do all these dirty jobs , because next door she had her own coal Lashmere cooking you see , and we had to make do with wood , and that entails cutting it ourselves , so our weekend , we worked Saturday mornings ; Sunday used to the day we had to do all the cottage work .
27 The majority of windsurfers , though , do not enjoy the perfect conditions that are needed to perform such spectacular manoeuvres and we have to make do with much smaller and fewer well-shaped waves .
28 Why , so hasty had been their recruitment that there even were n't police uniforms ready for them when they were rushed over to Ireland and they had to make do with some rag-tag-and-bobtail hotch-potch of khaki tunic and dark green trousers , supplemented with the black leather belts of the RIC .
29 At one stage Mr Howes said he had hold of Alan 's arm … but his colleague was a dead weight , and he had to let go .
30 Jasper would have liked to yell and sing and shout , if he had dared lift up his head .
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